GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon R9 270X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 270X		180 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (61%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should perform much faster than the Radeon R9 270X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270X		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 443699 (248%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be much (approximately 278%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 270X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		80000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 222400 (278%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the Radeon R9 270X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270X		32000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 119200 (373%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.